Dr. Chris Huggins

AssDipHSc (Ambulance Officer), DipFLM, DipEd&Trang, BHSc (Pre-Hospital Care), MTrang&Dev, D.Ed.

Lecturer and NEPT course coordinator

Lecturer for the Department of Community Emergency Health and Paramedic Practice.
Chris  Lecturers in the BEH(P)
Chris developed distant education package for the Diploma of Paramedical Studies, and is the secretary for the commercial programs unit course advisory committee. Chris has provided advice to DHS on educational matters for the Non-Emergency Sector. Designed, authored many learning text and workbooks for the program run by the commercial programs unit.
Chris is a paramedic with over twenty years experience and during that time has held the position of Team Manager, Safety and Support Manager and Clinical instructor. Chris was on the MAS Medical Standards Committee for three years.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Learning through simulation.

Critical decision making and the health care professional

Barriers to continuing education in health care professionals.

The community involvement in first aid and pre and out of hospital care.

PUBLICATIONS

 REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

Boyle ML, Williams B, Bibby C, Morton A, Huggins C. The first seven years of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade emergency responder program - An overview of incidents attended. Open Access Emergency Medicine. 2010:2 77-82.

Non-Refereed Journal

Huggins C, and Shugg D, Non-Emergency Patient Transport in Victoria: An overview. Journal of Emergency Primary Health Care (JEPHC), Vol. 6, Issue 4, 2008.

Huggins C. Public access defibrillation: World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine, Victoria, Australia 2003.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Refereed Conference Proceedings

Oral presentations

Huggins C, Allan J and Williams M. Simulation for Paramedics. SimHealth 2011 Conference. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; September 2011

Huggins C. Is language limiting the power of simulation? SimHealth 2011 Conference. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; September 2011

Huggins C. Developing Judgement Through Simulation. SimTecT2011  Conference. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; May 2011

Huggins C. Three phases of simulation. SimTecT2010  Conference. Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; June 2010

Huggins C. Simulation beyond psycho-motor skills to judgement. CS&H Industry Skills Council’s Convention. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; October 2009.

Huggins C. Simulations, Critical Thinking and Clinical Judgement Lessons learn. 16^th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine. Victoria Canada; 2009.

Boyle M, Bibby C, Williams B, Huggins C, Morton A, Shugg D. The Metropolitan Fire Brigade Emergency Responder Program – A Review of The First Seven Years. 7th International Spark of Life Conference. Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 2009

Huggins C. Learning through simulation: Experiential Learning; “Powerful, Purposeful and Personal”(a work in progress) Australian College of Ambulance Professionals Conference. Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia; 2007.

 Poster presentation

Huggins C. Authentic experiences in a pseudo-authentic setting.. SimTecT Health Conference. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Sept 2010.

Boyle M, Bibby C, Williams B, Huggins C, Morton A, Shugg D. The First Seven Years of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade Emergency Responder Program. Auckland New Zealand: 2009.

Huggins C. Three Phases of Simulation and Influence of Bloom’s Domains Embedded in Effective Simulation. SimTecT Health Conference. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Sept 2009.

Huggins C. Simulation Beyond Skills to Clinical Reasoning. SimTecT Health Conference. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Sept 2009.

Huggins C. Evidence based practice and clinical judgement: The Challenge for Health Care Professionals. Australian College of Ambulance Professionals Conference. Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; 2008.

Peter Jurkovsky

Senior Lecturer and unit head

Joel Luttrell

Lecturer and Short courses Co-ordinator

Kevin Norton

Lecturer

Stephen Fairey

Lecturer and Driving Standards Co-ordinator

Clive Butler

Project Officer 

TBA

Administration

Angela Bertoncello

Administration

 Lisa Sarris

Sessional Lecturer

 John Ballard

Sessional Lecturer

 Noel Brebner